Sunday, July 15, 2012

The Combination of
Mitt and a Tea-Party Dominated Congress Will Destroy America

Americans voted two years ago in anger to elect a very
conservative, Tea-Party led Republican majority in the House. Given that a vast
majority of all incumbents win re-election, the next House will probably again
have a Republican majority. And given the large numbers of Tea-Party members of
the Republican majority, virtually nothing will be approved by the House unless
the Tea-Party supports it. Look at the results of the 112th
Congress – they have passed the fewest laws passed of any Congress in
history, shut down the FAA, and nearly brought us to a completely unnecessary
default; but they voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act (voting for a Bill
that they KNOW will never become law) 33 times! 33 times!

The Tea-party is such a sad joke. They say taxes are too
high. Compared to what? The truth is that in the US in 2009 (the last year data is
available) the taxpayers paid the total LOWEST
tax rate for the past 30 years. The US now has some of the lowest tax
rates in the world and the lowest in recent history. And the result is clear:
huge deficits, decaying infrastructure, and a massive reduction in investment
in education.

If the Tea-Party really wanted America
to be great again, they would push us to return to the period when America was
strong; when we had the ability to invest in our roads and bridges, the
education of our youth, and could run a surplus and reduce our debt. And it was
so not that many years ago. Under Bill Clinton, the US government ran a surplus for four
straight years. And we were unquestionably the strongest nation on the
planet. Within eight short years, George Bush had damaged our finances, our
military, and our international standing so badly that we have fallen a long
way. We need to invest in ourselves, to make ourselves stronger and better. The
Tea-party has exactly the WRONG solution for America.

What is their real agenda? Simple: I’ve got mine, and I
don’t care about you. The Tea-party serves the 1%, or really the 1% of the 1%
(like Mitt) who know they will be OK even if everyone else crashes and burns.
They are not Patriots. They are greedy, self serving leeches who are willing to
hurt this nation so they can own yet another house in a gated community, or
Cadillac, or Swiss bank account. Mitt is their poster child.

For the past two years the Tea-party leaders have tried to
destroy this great nation, but have been stymied by the President. But if Mitt
is in the White House, he will follow their lead. Why are the very rich pouring
hundreds of millions of dollars into Mitt’s campaign? It’s an investment in a
politician who will give them what they want – at the expense of the rest of
us. A vote for Mitt is a vote for the most conservative Tea-Party Republican
agenda. An agenda that will the push the US to default on its debt,
devastate our military, and crash the world’s our country’s economy.